Works
- with James Edward Smith (1759—1828), The Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia Collected from Observations by John Abbot (2 volumes, 104 plates). (1797).
- Original drawings for Jean Baptiste Alphonse Dechauffour de Boisduval's (1799—1879) and John Eatton Le Conte's (1825—1883) Histoire Générale et Iconographie des Lépidoptères et des Chenilles de l’Amérique septentrionale (1833).
- Original drawings for Charles Athanasie Walckenaer's Histoire naturelle des insectes aptères (1837—1847).
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